ski_junkie

I know it may seem like common sense, but common sense often isn't all that common.

At the JY on tues I pulled some s10 leaf springs. I thought before i left that i should wear my boots (i have 2 different pairs of steel toe boots) instead I just threw on my tennis shoes. Not really a problem, until i was carrying the springs to the counter and dropped one..... square on my Little Toe!!

Luckily i didn't break it, just turned it all sorts of pretty colors.

So my advice... if you have steel toe boots...wear 'em... my little experience with gravity could of ended really badly, I got lucky i just got a bad bruise.

06 DIESEL

I wear my boots 90% of the time I am out of the house, more comfortable than shoes to me anyway, let alone safer.

Irongrave

if I'm working on anything I'm wearing my redwings 1 they are more comfortable then most sneakers for me and 2 they have saved my toes more then a few times.

jeepdude16

my current boots are pretty comfortable but as the day goes on they bug me, maybe because they are $30 walmart boots with the sole almost completely worn down. Good thing my new skechers boots get here soon, itching to try those out

Tankerblade

Have to love steeltoe boots. they've saved my feet many times when i go work for a friend cut down tree's and split them for firewood

ski_junkie

I have a good pair of redwing boots that i use for work (they even pay for them). They are pretty comfortable, just a bit hot. My work is even getting me a new pair here soon once i go get them. so maybe i will keep my old ones for when i am going any where near my jeep.

Diesel

Carbon Fiber toe boots, if you drop something very heavy, the steel is going to bend and cut your toes clear off. Happened to my brother in law in his garage.

miglia-spyder

I was gonna say. I know alot of shops with hi-lo's running around, that wont alow employees to wear steel toe boots. One of my dads buddies got his big toe chopped clear off by his steel toe boot when his foot was run over by a hi-lo. But I guess i would rather have my toe chopped off than just smashed.

Diesel

Smashed can be reconstructed. Cut off, not so much.

rich

Boy it takes alot of weight to crush a steel toe boot though, REAL EXP. HERE we had a guy at work have his foot run over by a 10 ton forklift,and sorry his toes stayed on. So it will take alot more than you can think of also watch mythbusters.Remember to see it ,and not talk out of the wrong end all the time guys. Other wise they would be banned. D.A.

rich

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Gee oh Dee

I'll back up the suggestion of any composite toe boot. For a few reasons.

Composite toe boots carry the same ANSI rating as steel toe boots. They have to, otherwise companies couldn't market them.

Composite toe boots are lighter than steel toes, saving your feet and lower back from added stress. Boots are heavy enough as is.

If you exceed the max rating of a steel toe boot, it will conform to the shape it was crushed to. The main problem here is not cutting or crushing, but the steel conforming to the shape it was crushed to. This makes it difficult for emergency workers to remove your boot from your foot, possibly causing the need to have the steel toe cut off. This itself creates a safety issue, as there isn't much between your foot and the boot. Composites are easier to cut, and most companies create "fracture" zones that will force the composite to break away from the foot and toes, preventing the need for cutting the toe of the boot off.

Not to mention if any of you have ever worn steel toes in the cold, you know they just plain suck. The steel acts as a heat sink, pulling all the warmth away from your toes, causing them to lose feeling quicker.

Composite toes just don't do that.

Composite toe boots offer many bonuses that steel toes can't. Steel toes are old, out dated technology, plain and simple.

Tural

depends on who makes the boots. i wear my army steel toe boots almost 100% of the time. i just make sure that i pay extra attention before i stick my foot under a railroad cart

xj_maniac_newb

All this talk of steel toes and composite toes is just rediculous. If im wearing shoes, 9 times out of 10 they're flip flops. I mean i dont wanna get my nice steel toe timberlands scuffed up now do i?

blasterman93

X2 that. I have titanium toe boots very light weight and strong. I beam dropped from a stakebed truck and on the toe of my left foot didnt feel a thing.